gat
/ɡæt/
gat noun: a Gatling gun. Also the simple past of get.
Noun (1)
gat (plural gats)
- A Gatling gun.
- Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
- You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
With a gat that's pointed at yo ass1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton
Verb
gat (third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)
- To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
- He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27
- Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock, page 293
Noun (2)
gat (plural gats)
- A guitar.
Noun (3)
gat (plural gats)
- An inshore channel or strait dividing two landmasses (such as two islands or sandbanks, or an island and a peninsula, etc) or connecting coastal waters with the open sea, especially on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas.
- Frisian North Sea islands lie off the coast, each interrupted by a gat (eyelet hole), through which the tidal water can enter and run off again. Between the North Sea islands and the coast lies the East Frisian Wadden Sea, which is […]2020, Alexander Rubel, Hans-Ulrich Voß, Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience, page 134
Noun (4)
gat (plural gats)
Noun (5)
gat (uncountable)
- Guinness (type of beer).
- Ruairí can tell you who goes to what bill, and I can spare a few minutes to show you how to pour a proper pint of gat.2021, T. M. Cromer, Pints & Potions
Noun (6) capitalized: Gat
Gat (uncountable)
- Alternative form of gat (“Guinness beer”).
- The Irishman ordered an Irish whiskey and a pint of Gat which were brought to him.2018, Team Golfwell, Absolute Best Adult Party Jokes, page 26
Also used as
gat is also the simple past of get.
gat is also the alternative spelling of khat.
Examples of gat in a sentence
- It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:
- Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115:
- Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted.2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:
Synonyms of gat
Forms of gat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gats |
| alternative form | kat |
| alternative form | Gat |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gats |
| present participle | gatting |
| past participle | gatted |
| past | gatted |
Origin of gat
Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
From guitar, by shortening.
From Dutch gat and/or Middle Low German gat. Compare Icelandic gat.
Words that rhyme with gat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mat
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- batt
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
- Flatt
Questions about gat
- What does gat mean?
- Gat means a Gatling gun.
- How do you use gat in a sentence?
- It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.
- What part of speech is gat?
- Gat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gat?
- Gat is pronounced /ɡæt/.
- What is the plural of gat?
- The plural of gat is gats.
Words near gat in the dictionary
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